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Week 10 Quiz

Checking whether this week's restroom-silence-pretence reading landed.

Week 10

Three questions on the restroom’s fragile, high-effort silence norm.

1. What norm does the lecture say the public restroom runs on?

Everyone present agrees, by unspoken consensus, to act as though the room is silent
A posted sign requiring silence at all times
No norm at all — restrooms are entirely unregulated spaces
A norm enforced by attendants on duty

2. According to the lecture, what does the tap-as-mask have in common with the Week 4 shush?

Both are countermeasures everyone knows don't actually work, yet both persist
Both are completely effective at hiding sound
Neither has ever been used outside this course
Both require a staff member to operate them

3. What does the lecture compare a single deliberate breach of the restroom's silence against?

The generalised discomfort of maintaining the pretence in the first place
The cost of cleaning the restroom afterward
A formal noise complaint
Nothing — the lecture treats a breach as entirely costless

Related

Week 10: A Phenomenological Inquiry into Acoustic Self-Deception in the Public Restroom
Week 10 Tutorial: Naming a Breach

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